Catching up on UFOs

The upside of having a few UFOs knocking around my sewing room is that during that weird period after finishing one piece and before beginning a new project, there is satisfying work to keep me busy:
Baby Zig will go to Greta, sister of Helena the Great and Emergency Elisa.


HST Neptune was a fun little project and I love the quilting on it. Just ignore the white wine spills .... I only need to finish the corners and tie up loose ends on both of those. And then there is an owly UFO awaiting sandwiching and basting ... it's already taped to my sewing room floor.

Happy New Year

Christmas has come and gone - and despite the best of intentions, there was minimal crafting to be had this time around. I think I will just have to start earlier in the year ...

2012 has been kicked off with work on UFOs, I finished one top and failed at stippling, thankfully, straight-line quilting is so much more NOW:

Another WIP is almost quilted. I had originally chosen too thick a wadding and now had to sandwich etc. the whole thing again. But with the straight-line quilting almost finished, I am quite pleased with the results:

Which idiot picked that thick wadding?

Even with a walking foot, my machine cannot handle it. So off come all the pins and in goes new wadding.

Such a simple, yet cool way to use HST

As some already know, I hate corners, I hate triangles even more. But I love HSTs ... they are so easy to make. But they can be a bit repetitive, so this is a great way to use them.

Thank you, Red Pepper Quilts, for sharing!

Pins, pins and more pins!

I'm preparing for 9 or 10 days of relative peace and quiet, with both hubby and the girls away for 7 or more days ...

... and that means good progress on the HST Neptune, disguised as test-driving my new cordless iron ...


... so that I can move onto the Night on the Tiles.

HST Neptune top assembled

Now I need to work on the wadding which will be scrappy. All in all, things are moving along nicely here ...

Stalling .... and assembling

So much for the July deadling ... but at least I am enjoying making progress somewhere!

A bowl of HST: you want process, you get process

It all started out with a stack of charms from Tula Pink's Neptune range, that I didn't really know what to do with. Since I really don't have any other projects planed - ahem - and I saw lots of quilters making lots of lovely HST quilts, I thought I'd just give it a whirl.

And so the process began ... with me wanting the triangles to gradually chance colour from bottom left to top right and thinking at a white stripe, achieved with a change of direction of the triangles, would add a nice break.



... and maybe a red stripe



... nope, didn't like it ... add some blue maybe ...



again, no.



I might even drop the white stripe altogether ...

Tula Pink's Neptune

What the hell am I doing, I sometimes wonder ... because I didn't have enough of the script fabric to finish the backing of my Night on the Tiles, I started Caroline's Objects. When I wanted to stipple it, I realised that I wasn't getting the tension right so went off to look for the machine's manual. Couldn't find it so set off to look for it online. Since they were charging 8 quid plus postage, I decided to go back and look again. I did find it in the end, however I thought that starting another project would be more fun.

So here it is, the beginning of my first half square triangle quilt. When did I decide that sewing with triangles is fun? Weird!

And tomorrow, I will attend a quilt class and start yet another project: New York Beauties. I am very excited about that!